Department of Economics Discussion Papers

Given relatively weak industrial safety incentives in New Zealand's accident compensation legislation, an important development has been the Health and Safety in Employme [...]

Academic institutions may go beyond observing lexicographic ordering of authors in attempting to determine relative contributions to joint research. The present article e [...]

This paper introduces a finance channel for monetary policy. Following Black (1970) there is no money commodity in the paper's model. Instead, the medium of exchange is b [...]

There is a great deal of support for nominal income targeting in the literature on strategies for monetary policy in a closed economy framework. Is nominal income targeti [...]

Repeated one-shot public good experiments commonly tell participants only oftheir group's total contribution after each round. In contrast, private charities sometimes pu [...]

Are contributions involuntary public good experiments inflated because subjects are given money for their initial endowments? There is evidence that people receiving smal [...]

Previous theory has suggested that altruism in other people's utility does not affect the optimal level ofpublic good provision if preferences can be represented by gener [...]

Departures from self-interested behavior have been observed in a broad range of economics experiments, and suggested by case studies of ethical purchase behaviour. These [...]